There was growing concern that the city would be effectively split in two by the water.
One of the board's five seats was vacant until last December, so it was effectively split and it postponed ruling on many issues, including this one.
The orchestra is effectively split into two ensembles facing one another across the platform, though playing in accord rather than engaged in conflict.
Afzal Guru's hanging is a highly emotive subject in Kashmir, which was effectively split between Pakistan and India shortly after the two states gained their independence from Britain in 1947.
Since 1974, when the island was effectively split between its majority population of Greeks in the south and Turks in the north, there have been repeated attempts to solve the problem but all have floundered.
But the youthful drama controller is not quite so powerful as the woman he replaced, Jane Tranter, whose "head of fiction" role was effectively split into four after she left for the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, with responsibility for film, comedy and acquisitions going elsewhere.
Its success was based on three pillars: low prices (thanks, in part, to its tax-free status); continuing investment in the lift systems; and a policy of hiring native English-speakers for the national ski school, which was effectively split into two more-or-less equal parts, one of them completely English-speaking.
By inserting this expansion into Eq. (19), we obtain an equation that can be effectively split into terms of different order that will be analysed separately.
Syria is effectively split into three pieces: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government and military controls about a third of the country: Syria's capital, the country's border region with Lebanon, including the important towns of Hama and Homs, and the country's western coastal region.
